[cod] Mmmm... cores

Dnk d.k.emaillists at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 14:09:03 EST 2009


Something like openvz might work well for virtualized game servers.

Dnk

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On 8-Jan-09, at 10:23 AM, "Charles Goldsmith" <wokka at justfamily.org>  
wrote:

> I'm running one game server in a windows box which is a vm and our
> server has been busy every night with no performance problems at all.
>
> Now, with regards to the original posters info, and if he's wanting to
> maximize the amount of gameservers he wants to put on this box, vm's
> are not the answer.  Way too much overhead for vm's, even with the
> shared memory features of vmware.
>
> Good linux host and jails are the best way to isolate the gameservers,
> and no extra overhead of more operating systems.
>
> The only drawback will be IO usage, a good raid array striped will be
> a must, but even then, with 20 or so game servers, they will be
> competing for resources on the drive access, or that is my best guess.
>
> Please let us know how it works out
> Charles
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, "Einar S. idsø"
> <einar.cod at norsk-esport.no> wrote:
>> Do virtual servers actually work well with game-servers? We use  
>> virtual
>> servers for
>> a lot of things, but for our game servers we use only pure physical  
>> hosts. I
>> would
>> think that real-time properties, which are quite important for game- 
>> servers
>> as
>> opposed to webservers, sql-servers and mailservers, would be quite  
>> poor for
>> virtualised servers.
>>
>> Which virtualisation solutions have proven to work for past-paced  
>> games? And
>> is
>> there a certain trick to setting them up, such as binding a virtual  
>> server
>> to a single
>> core?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Einar
>>
>> Dallas Crandall wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Each game server, as far as I know will only use a single core so  
>> virtual is
>> what this bad boy was made for.  J This machine in our environment  
>> running
>> Linux game servers, we would be able to run 40-50 game servers on  
>> this
>> single box! Currently we run 6-10 windows servers on a single dual  
>> core xeon
>> w/8gigs of ram. Remember Vmware allows over commitment of memory!!!  
>> Most
>> others do not.
>>
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